HSS/IISER Bhopal


Dr. Ankita


Assistant Professor
Philosophy

ankita@iiserb.ac.in
91 755 269 2707
#411B, Fourth Floor, AB-4
  • Academic
  • Research
  • Publications
  • Book Chapters

    Academic Details

  • PhD (Philosophy), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
  • MPhil (Philosophy), Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi
  • M.A. (Philosophy), Hindu College, University of Delhi
  • B.A. (Philosophy Hons.), Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi

    • Awards & Fellowships

  • Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in PhD Research (Best Thesis Award) for the year 2023-2025 awarded by IIT Bombay (August 2025).
  • Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (UGC NET-JRF) in Philosophy (July 2016).

    • Professional Details

  • Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of H.S.S., IISER Bhopal (August 2025-Present).
  • Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (IPDF) at the Department of H.S.S., IIT Bombay (November 2023-November 2024).
  • Research Associate (RA) at the Department of H.S.S., IIT Bombay (August 2023-November 2023).
  • Assistant Professor (Guest Faculty) at the Department of Philosophy, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi (July 2017-April 2018).


    • Memberships in Professional Associations

  • Lifetime member of Tattvanveshi Philosophical Society (Forum for Philosophy), Mumbai, India.
  • Lifetime member of Balvant Parekh Centre For General Semantics & Other Human Sciences, Baroda, Gujarat, India.


Areas of Interest

  • Contemporary issues in Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language and Semantics, Language and Agency in Ethics.

    • Current Research Issues

  • Problems pertaining to Indexical Reference, Context-sensitivity, Semantic Paradoxes, Speech Acts and Pragmatics among others.
  • Issues of Agency and our interaction with AI (Philosophy of Language and AI, Techno-Philosophy, Ethics).
  • Some selected topics in Consciousness.













    • # Authors Title Journals Year
    1 Ankita Jha Intention, Convergence and Indexical Reference Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (Springer) 2023
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